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johnf35366569
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February 7, 2024
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Grep style formula needed

  • February 7, 2024
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Looking for a no break GREP style to keep '(Graph 2.10)' from breaking. The Graph reference will change throughout so need a wild card for the number if that makes sense. so the next could be 2.11 etc.

Thanks

 

 

 

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    Correct answer Eugene Tyson

    although that can find words probably like

    telegraph 230

    paragraph 2

     

    so you could clarify with word boundary

     

    (?i)\bgraph\b\K

     

    probably does it - sorry I can't test right now.

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    virender_CTS
    Inspiring
    February 7, 2024

    Find what in Grep:

    (g|Graph)( )(\d.\d+)

    Changed To

    $1~S$3

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    Eugene TysonCommunity Expert
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    February 7, 2024

    That's cool - but it's a find/change - they are looking for a Style

    So you need to look around the space and isolate the space

     

    But it is another way if they are happy with find change

    I think your search would find telegraph 1, or paragraph 6, or spectrograph 1 etc. 

    And the \d.\d+ only finds one digit

    so it wouldn't find 20.1

    it would find 20 ( \d . (digit + wildcard) ) 

    it would need to be \d+\.\d+

    but this wouldn't include 20.3.4 so might not get all

     

     

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    virender_CTS
    Inspiring
    February 7, 2024

    I didn't test earlier but you can try now:

    \<([gG]raph)( )(?=\d)

    changed to 

    $1~S

     

     

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    Eugene TysonCommunity Expert
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    February 7, 2024

    Create a blank character style called 'No Break'

     

    in the paragraph style go to the Grep Style section (call it Graph No Break or something you'll remember)

     

    Set the Character Style you just created

    (?i)graph\K\h(?=\d)

     

    This finds any variation of graph Graph GRAPH etc. with (?i)

    \K tells it to ignore this part 

    \h is any horizontal space

    (?=) is a postive lookahed - it doesn't include it in the search

    (?=\d) is telling it to lookahead for a digit but don't include it


    Logically

    So any thing that is graph with any combination of upper/lowercase

    find the horizontal space

    check ahead for a digit but don't include

    apply the no break

     

    so it won't matter if it's 2.10 or 210.0345

    It will find a space between graph and a digit

    graph 2.10

    Graph 210.0345

    GRAPH 2.10.213.34

     

    it's just identifying the space.

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    Eugene TysonCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    February 7, 2024

    although that can find words probably like

    telegraph 230

    paragraph 2

     

    so you could clarify with word boundary

     

    (?i)\bgraph\b\K

     

    probably does it - sorry I can't test right now.

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